363 examples of imp in sentences

The imp of perversity made her go on.

ever allow that five-year-old imp to travel with men?" grunted Joyce disgustedly, as he sat down again and now realized that the nickel was under him next to the skin.

"You are a very kind Imp," he said.

"Imp" is the name he invented for me.

"Thank you, Imp, for letting me see that you are such a staunch little friend," said he.

" "Yes, Imp, I am.

By them he has been described as a malignant imp: was often spoken of for his pranks by the worthy housewives of the neighbourhood, as "Mrs Byron's crockit deevil," and generally disliked for the deep vindictive anger he retained against those with whom he happened to quarrel.

At the very last, and as if inspired by some special imp of the perverse, Mary declared that she must have a church wedding.

Now perhaps he might succeed, with the help of the crows, in becoming master of that little imp who always eluded him.

[Graceless imp!]

Yes, my imp of Satan, in the coupé, and in good hands too.

Lawrence threw up the sash and called to her, and his guardian imp approached the window.

Truth to tell, she is tired to death of ittired of the room, the palette, the easel, the queen, the rhymer, the little dusky imp in the corner, whose wings are changing into scales and a tail, almost tired of dear Simon Perkins himself; who is working contentedly on (how can he?)

What do you think of that imp's tail?Isn't it a trifle too long?" "I'm no judge of imps," answered Dick.

" "Well, as I was saying," continued Simon, foreshortening his imp the while, "my luck has been wonderful.

"I have learned so much since then," continued Simon, putting a little grey into his imp's muzzle, "and unlearned so much, too, which is better still.

In the first place, you observe the light from that chink streaming down on my imp's back; well, in the picture, you know" "Where is the picture?" exclaimed Dick, whose cigar was finished, and who had no scruples in thus unceremoniously interrupting a professional lecture which previous experience told him might be wearisome.

TRIP E. SELLERO F. IMP IN.

The audacious little imp of an idea peeped around corners in Katie's consciousness and tried to coquet with her.

She had seen in the corners of his mouth an inexplicable hidden imp of laughter as he gravely listened, cup in hand, to the remarks of the beautiful Mrs. William Winterton Perth about the inevitable promiscuity of democracy, and he continually displayed a tendency to gravitate into the background, away from the center of the stage where their deference for his name, fortune, and personality would have placed him.

You saucy imp, who don't know what labour and good conduct are, and who have nothing to boast of, but the powers which a monkey possesses to a greater extent than yourself!"

"Murray's Gram., p. 217; Guy's, 90; R G. Smith's, 180; Ingersoll's, 153; Fisk's, 144; J. M. Putnam's, 137; Weld's, 190, Weld's Imp.

The imp of the perverse.

"Get out of here, you imp!"

"I think that little imp of mine, Hughie, could thrash him, if they chose to fight, and he is nearly three years the younger of the two.

363 examples of  imp  in sentences